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Shearings (legally Shearings Travel Limited) [1] is a coach tour operator, part of the Leger Shearings Group, based in the United Kingdom.The tour operator brand specialises in holidays including escorted tours, unescorted tours, short breaks, self-drive holidays and river cruises throughout the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Ireland and Continental Europe.
The museum was founded on its present site at Carlton Colville in 1965, following the rescue in 1962 by four enthusiasts of the body of an old Lowestoft tram (number 14), [2] which had been used for a number of years as a summerhouse. The site was formerly a meadow, donated by the founder and first chairman of the Museum Society, Albert Bird.
Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.
These holiday festivals and events around the Coastal Bend offer a fun time for family and friends in 2023.
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United began a coach building business at the Lowestoft site in 1920. [3] In 1931, the East Anglian operations of United were hived off into a new company, Eastern Counties Omnibus Company , and Eastern Counties inherited the coach works - now concentrating on building bus bodies, with a workforce of over 600 people. [ 4 ]
This was followed in April 2005 with Wallace Arnold merging with Shearings in a £200,000,000 (equivalent to £377,194,000 in 2023) deal to become WA Shearings, claiming a 14% share of the UK coach holiday market. [1] [11] [12] In 2007 the Wallace Arnold name was dropped, with the company name simplified to Shearings Holidays. [13]
Coastal Clipper buses also operate on services 1 and 1A, serving Hopton-on-Sea and Lowestoft via Martham, Hemsby, Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston-on-Sea; [37] service 1A would receive recognition in June 2023 in a guide by Snaptrip as one of the most scenic bus routes in the United Kingdom. [38] [39]